What Netflix can teach us about treating cancer

What Netflix can teach us about treating cancer

By Elana Fertig, Assistant Professor of Oncology Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University. A tumor under the microscope. Cropped from cnicholsonpath/flickr, CC BY Two years ago, former President Barack Obama announced the Precision Medicine initiative in his State of the Union Address. The initiative aspired to a “new era of medicine” where disease treatments could be…